1st - London's Daily Universal Registrar becomes the Times1st - Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves2nd - Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution9th - Connecticut becomes 5th state of the Union18th - The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony20th - Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga26th - Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists hoist the Union Flag at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day28th - Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of FrancePage one of the original copy of the Constitution of the United States